Welcome to St Chad's...

 

 

...the oldest building in Stafford, and "Stafford's hidden gem" - a working church in the Anglo-

Catholic tradition and a treasure house of unique and mysterious Norman carving.

 

 

Our website features  images and history of the church, details of worship and special events, and creative projects inspired by St Chad's, its tradition and its surrounding county of Staffordshire.

 

 

Fr Michael Fisher introduces St Chad's here.

 

This week's services...

 

...are here. We sing Evensong every Saturday.  We are keen to develop music at St Chads and welcome new choir members. Find out about St Chad's choir and music here. 

  

 

St Chad's mysterious Norman carvings include several so-called "Green Men." The church was built at a time when the natural world was being explored in a new way as a revelation of God and poets and philosophers were using fantastic imagery.

 

This year in collaboration with Stafford Music Festival and "Shugborough - Inspired by the Past" Andrew Baker will be giving an illustrated  talk about "The Realm of Pan - Arcadia and the Earthly Paradise"/ The talk with move from classical times to 18th century Shugborough, showing how images of the ancient Greek Pan merge with the  Green Man in the middle ages and Pan's real of Arcadia became part of The Earthly Paradise.

 

Following the talk Alyson Lewin and Ellie Davies will be playing Andrew's Arcadian music for recorder and keyboard - exploring how the Renaissance imagined secrets of Ancient Greek music.

 

For full details of "Shugborough - Inspired by the Past", a series of events celebrating the inspiartion of Ancient Greece, visit www.heardmusic.co.uk

 

 

 

Last year, on Saturday May 7th 2011 at 12.00 the charismatic storyteller Xanthe Gresham told the story of Gawain and the Green Knight to an entralled audience. The Stafford Morris Men led everyone on a quest through the town to a climax in the Shire Hall Library,  where they  met the Green Knight himself in the form of an eight foot high puppet made by Carl Johnson of Stafford Library.

 

   

 

Timewalk...

 

...is St Chad's exciting sound & light show  revealing the history of the church and the town of Stafford.

 

Spirituality...

 

...is a simple introduction to various traditions for anyone wishing to explore Christian Spirituality.

 

A Winter Journey...

 

...is a musical pilgrimage   based on the introit chants for Advent and Christmas by Stafford composer and St Chad's choir member Andrew Baker.

 

Sacred Staffordshire...

 

...is a series of explorations of sacred sites in the county.

Church Opening Times...

Sundays  -  09:45 - 13:00
Tuesdays  - 09:45 - 12:00
Fridays    -  11:00 - 13:30
Saturdays - 10:30 - 17:00

Volunteers...

St Chad’s wants to increase its volunteer workforce. At present the church welcomes visitors at the times listed above, but would like to increase its opening hours. If you would like to assist either at the current opening times or at other times then please contact the clergy or wardens to find out more and arrange an interview using the contact details on this site.

 

<sub>Contacts:

Rector of Stafford: The Revd Preb Graham Fowell (Tel: 01785 258511)
Priest in charge: Fr. Michael Fisher (Tel: 01785 245069)</sub>

Priest: Fr. Tony Hutchinson (Tel: 01902 373145)

_{Readers: Bob Button}

_{Church Wardens: Heather Wilhelms (Tel: 07954 996610), Ian Carr (Tel: 01785 244965)
Email: stchads @ hotmail.com}

 

Timewalk: timewalk@hotmail.co.uk